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regextegrity··on Crazy New Ideas
I think your problem is treating the success of the Kardashians as deterministic
regextegrity··on Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel
The job of government is to provide services for it's people, it doesn't have to be competitive, just useful.
regextegrity··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
The peeing in bottles is just one of many symptoms of their terrible working conditions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-wo...
regextegrity··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
The peeing in bottles is just one of many symptoms of their terrible working conditions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-wo...
regextegrity··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
What?? I don't mean "formal, timed bathroom breaks". I don't even think that exists in the real world. I mean they don't have enough leeway in their incentive system, to the point where workers have to pee in bottles out of fear of missing quotas and losing their job
regextegrity··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
What? I don't mean scheduled bathroom breaks, I mean they aren't given enough leeway during the day to even use the bathroom. There are many reports of them peeing in bottles and shitting in plastic bags.
regextegrity··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
Meanwhile the Teachers, Police, Firemen, Government workers, Health, public transportation workers do not live in a state of wage slavery where the best job they can get doesn't even give bathroom breaks (i.e Amazon)
regextegrity··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
> This vote was no because if it had been yes the likely consequence would have been all the voters being out of a job.

Isn't that a problem?

regextegrity··on A woman who took on Google and won
The big ideological thing that both these comments miss is the they don't question the presupposition that we need to be 'natural'
regextegrity··on A woman who took on Google and won
While corporations are somehow considered people, they can't be expected to be good.
regextegrity··on A woman who took on Google and won
Seeing how wages adjusted for inflation have stagnated while productivity has nearly doubled in the past 40 years and the impending climate catastrophies, I don't see how we're at a high point. Although, I guess if some kind of climate catastrophe occurs, we could consider ourselves in one of the luckier generations https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/productivity-workforc....
regextegrity··on A woman who took on Google and won
Source?
regextegrity··on 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
Why not just turn off your router? Lightbulbs and refrigerators are surprisingly useful
regextegrity··on Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
That is a very illogical line of reasoning.
regextegrity··on Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
Sounds good for shareholders, but bad for the workers that make up Amazon.